Billy is the titular deuteragonist of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy/Evil Con Carne franchise. Billy is a dimwitted, happy-go-lucky boy who lives in Endsville with his parents, Harold and Gladys, he is the best friend of both Mandy and Grim.
"Billy is a fierce fighter powered by sugar and acute lack of discipline. Billy is likely to show mercy to a former foe, but only after beating him senseless with his mighty hammer."[1]
"The first thing most folks notice about Billy is that he's not very smart. However, it's easy to forgive Billy's stupidity, since his main goals in life are to be happy and have fun. After bizarre alien creatures start appearing all over Endsville, Billy is eager to learn more about these strange creatures, so Billy adopts one and names him Runty. Billy's pet cat, Milkshakes, instantly harbors a great deal of resentment for Runty."[2]
Development[]
Voice[]
Characterization[]
Personality and traits[]
He deeply cares about his friends and will do just about anything for them. He at sometimes can be an antagonist when he gets very angry and delusional. He has a fear of spiders, (especially towards Jeff his spider son), clowns (he overcame it in season 3, though in the "Big Boogey Adventure" special shows that he still dreads them) and mailmen.
He is enthusiastic and very curiously and dimwitted like his father, Harold.
Physical appearance[]
He is short and has no neck. He has a large round pink nose like his father does as well. He wears a white t-shirt with a horizontal blue stripe. He wears dark blue pants with white and red sneakers. He also wears a red baseball cap (with the bottom of the flap of his cap being either brown or red). He has a shock of red hair underneath his baseball cap.
Powers and abilities[]
Heightened pain tolerance: In many episodes and because of the fact that he is in an animated cartoon, he is shown to have his flesh ripped, body parts cut off, burned, eaten, and many other seemingly lethal encounters but always ends up surviving what would normally kill off other characters. This may be due to his stupidity to be so heightened that he is oblivious to pain and danger that he is indifferent to it as he is to life itself.
Heightened Confidence: He is shown to have no shame or fear in certain times of danger which can prove useful to him being oblivious to the danger which goes with his pain tolerance that makes him the stunt monkey and meat shield of the trio.
Nose Mucus Adhesive: Billy can make use of his nose mucus to make things stick together like when he used his snot to fix the dismembered boat in the movie.
Master Distraction Artist: He is shown to be effective in distracting and buying time for people like in the Halloween movie where he is able to distract Jack by mooning him long enough for Mandy to set up an abundance of prank traps.
Taunting: Going with his distracting capabilities, he has the ability to be so annoying and taunting that he can send anyone into a fury to go after him like in the anger mismanagement episode.
Nose Balloon Lift: It is shown that his noes can be used as an inflatable hot air balloon and can be held on by the nose hair to fly.
Befriender: Billy has the ability to be attached and befriend to unlikely beings to have mutual likings with each other. Whether it be inanimate objects like rocks, to underworld mutants like the kraken or the chacabra, or even Sperg temporarily in some episodes. This is limited to unfortunately to anything he does not fear which includes spiders, the mailman, and clowns in which he will act hostile or scared to.
Unlikely Translator: Billy at times is shown to speak of things only he can say like when he did a special call to signal the kraken to help them win a race. He could also understand and cunningly make Fred Fredburger's seemingly meaningless phrase about eating nachos into a moral of the story about their capabilities in the movie.
Super Yogurt Hero: He has the ability to turn into a muscular green superhero that can fly, have super strength, and shoot strawberry yogurt from his armpits.
Werewolf: Although temporary, Billy turned into a werewolf by the zombie martians in one episode.
Uniquely Stupid Brain/ Living without a brain: Billy's brain is so uniquely stupid that it had the power to destroy a brain washing machine the martians had. However, he may not even have a brain also stated in some episodes which shows he is able to function (although extremely low intelligence) normally without one.
History[]
Billy and Mandy met as babies when he came over to her house, repeatedly ringing her doorbell to annoy her enough to answer. When she did, the first thing she said to him was, "Are you some kinda idiot?". When he pointed out that she had no nose, he proceeded to shove an ice cream cone into her face, apparently creating a makeshift nose for her. Angered, Mandy punched Billy in the face, calling him a creep, and slammed the door in his face. Billy simply laughed and said, "She digs me". According to Harold, that day was the start of Billy and Mandy's friendship.
Years later, while Billy and Mandy were celebrating the tenth birthday of his pet hamster, Mr. Snuggles, the Grim Reaper appeared to claim the old hamster's soul. However, Mandy refused to give the Reaper the hamster and offered to play a game for its soul instead. If the Reaper wins, he would get the hamster's soul. Grim, assured of his victory, sweetened the deal on their behalf by promising that if they win, he would be their best friend "forever and ever." Grim took Billy and Mandy to play, where they competed in Grim's favorite game—limbo. Mandy cheated, and Grim was doomed to be the "best friend" of the two kids for all eternity.
Appearances[]
Other appearances[]
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Miscellaneous books[]
Video games[]
The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy[]
Billy appears as a playable character, he has her profession "Momma’s Boy", he uses his martial speciality called “Warhammer". A good all-around fighter, Billy’s blazing speed is his greatest asset.
Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion[]
After Aku is defeated, the heroes travel to Endsville and encounter the Grim Reaper. After fighting their way through, rescuing a corrupted Billy and Mandy, and battling an army of zombies, the group goes to the Underworld. There, they find and defeat Mojo Jojo and Father. They then escape the dimension as it, to, is destroyed. They then take the capsule to Samurai Jack's dimension. After defeating the corrupted warrior, Jack joins up with the heroes, but are attacked by Vilgax. After Vilgax's defeat, the now rather large group travels through Jack's world and defeats an army of Basket Robots.
Fusion Ball[]
In FusionFall, During the war, Billy adopted a Fusion Spawn named Runty, which later turns out to be his imaginary friend. Most of Billy's missions are rather pointless, but sometimes lead to more important tasks: Once Billy had the player retrieve Irwin's stuff, so that he may "watch it". Other times he had the player collect food and cage lining for Runty, in doing so revealing Fusion Mandy's lair in the Sand Castle. In his own self interest, Billy sent the player out to remove the Re:Fuse posters found in Habitat Homes after being paid 20 bucks to do so by the leader of the Beautification Organization, Fusion Father. Little did he know that in doing so, he caused the local Fusion monsters to return to their normal destructive selves. Due to his fear of clowns and nightmares he'd been having, Billy has the hero go south to City Point, in order to defeat the Destroyusalls. He then has you collect their noses, but Billy thinks the noses are scary, so the hero gives the noses to Bloo. Billy also tricked the player and stole his/her power of destiny, which allowed him/her to activate totems, just because he thought it was cool. Soon following Billy's attempt was Hex, who was unaware that Billy already stole the player's power. However, Mandy gives the player the Pillow of Common Sense, a strange pillow that actually took back the player's ability from Billy by smacking him with it and Mandy returns the player's powers to him/her (saying that she could have kept the powers herself but decided she already had common sense). In the last attack on a Fusion Control Center, Demongo planned to have Eduardo join the hero to provide an assault of Imaginary Energy. Billy showed up instead, thinking that the Control Center was the site of a party. He later showed up in Fusion Kevin's base under the same premise. This time however, he was able to make himself useful by overloading a force field made from imaginary energy stolen from Foster's Home, allowing the player to defeat Fusion Kevin which proves Billy is not that dumb.
Relationships[]
Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki has an article focusing on the relationships of Billy (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy).
Billy is the first character to appear and speak in the series.
Billy is one of the many characters in FusionFall.
He also has questionable schizophrenia, indicated in Bearded Billy when he overhears his father in the bathroom and tells his mother, "the bathroom is talking to me again," and asks her for his "vitamins".
In The Crawling Niceness, it is revealed that he is afraid of spiders.
In early seasons, Billy’s voice was more high pitched, but soon his voice became more deep.
Billy may have been responsible for Irwin's crush on Mandy; in the episode "Get Out of My Head!", he flirts with Irwin while in Mandy's mind, causing Irwin's emotional state to switch from frightened of Mandy to smitten by the remarks that Billy (in Mandy's body) makes. This could be why Irwin has a crush on Mandy, as it had not been established until then.
An alien in the Ben 10 series is based on Billy. The alien is orange, scaly and bloated with a large orange and pink nose, pointed ears and bad teeth. It is voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz and wears a blue and white striped shirt, and a red hat. It's species is named the Maxatomar (named after Maxwell Atoms).
Billy's voice actor is Richard Steven Horvitz in the series (who also voices Harold), but in Cartoon Network: Punch Time Explosion (in the 3DS version), it is Quinton Flynn. However, in the console version, Richard Steven Horvitz reprises his role as Billy.
His scientist uniform in Underfist: Halloween Bash is an allusion to Dexter from the TV series, Dexter's Laboratory.
In "Attack of the Clowns", It is revealed that he is afraid of clowns.
Billy's intelligence can also affect reality (similar to Mandy's smile) in "Billy Gets an "A”.
Billy's nose is removable, on one occasion even growing back after coming off.
Also similar to Mandy, who is mistaken for a boy on more than one occasion, Billy has been mistaken for a girl.
It was confirmed in The Nerve that Billy had a brain, but as little as an ant.
In Billy and Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure, it is revealed that he had three fears: spiders, clowns and the mailman. He has an extreme fear of the Spider-Clown Mailman.
Billy may be older than Mandy since his birthday party was celebrated in the 7th episode 'Tastes Like Chicken'; and her party was celebrated in the episode 9th episode 'A Grim Surprise', even though her actual birthdate was not for another "5 months."
In the Holiday special episode "Billy and Mandy save Christmas"; it was revealed that Billy and his family celebrate Hanukkah, which is a Jewish holiday -- however, the way he reveals this indicates that he and his family only celebrate it to get more presents (Hanukkah lasts for eight days while Christmas is only one day).
He is clearly a type "B personality"
A lot of the episodes consist of Billy ending up in some sort of peril of predicament; either because of his own foolishness or just his bad luck, and Mandy and Grim always having to go after him for a rescue.
He's only called by his full first name, William, in two episodes. "Smarten Up" and "The Bubble with Billy".
In “The Crass Unicorn”, it is implied that Billy bottles up his true feelings and pretends nothing bad happened to him at school.
Billy is scared of spiders because the Marshmallow monster scared billy with spiders when he was a baby in Underfist: Halloween Bash
Billy is implied to be in the second grade, having told Grim that he gets to "repeat the second grade, again!"
Billy is mentioned by Uncle Grandpa in the Steven Universe episode "Say Uncle".
Billy is one of three characters in the game to have created an imaginary friend, the other two being Mac and Dee Dee.
Billy is the only character who appears in four Fusion Lairs.
The Billy Nano's Nano Power, "Inner Frat Boy", is a reference to the episode "Attack of the Clowns". In the episode, when Billy goes into his happy place, he talks with his imaginary "Inner Frat Boy", who turns his fear of clowns into a hatred of them.
During "Fuse Some More", Billy refers to "Fusion Runty" as "El Gran Gordo", which is roughly "The Big Fat" in Spanish.
↑Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall. Cartoon Network Universe: FusionFall: About FusionFall/Game Details. Cartoon Network. Archived from the original on 20 August 2010.
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